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frantic PC repairs

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

My work search is at a halt without a PC, so I made it a priority to get my PC back in shape. Charlie, upon hearing of my plight, offered to take me over to the place where I bought the thing, and we asked the guy to have a look at the thing.

With some struggling, he got the power feed off of the motherboard, and swore in surprise when he saw the state of the power socket. No fewer than five of the sockets were completely torched. After he poked around with it for a while trying to 'clean' the individual sockets, I convinced him to call it quits.

Disappointed that he had even tried to make a go of the burnt parts, and also unimpressed that he didn't have any compatible motherboards in stock, I decided to take the PC down to Canada Computers, because I'd checked online the night before with Tracey's laptop that they had a similar model of motherboard in stock, and would have plenty of power supplies.

The technician at the second shop agreed with me that the motherboard and power supply were beyond help, and had to be replaced. For $130 in parts and $50 in labour I agreed to have him replace the damaged components, and left my system with him.

I should note that Asus never returned my frantic technical call from the previous night. I am not too impressed with that.